Dariusz Paczuski admits “vodka is in my blood.” That’s one reason he started Rocket Vodka in his Menlo Park garage.
Dariusz’s family fled Poland to escape communism when he was about a year old, eventually settling in Norway, where he was a member of the Norwegian National Swim Team. When he was 20, a swimming scholarship to Cal State Long Beach brought him to the states. But memories of his father’s moonshine vodka lingered.……
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